Seven samurai by Akira Kurosawa(
Visual
)45
editions published
between
1954
and
2013
in
3
languages
and held by
2,844 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them
from invading bandits

Rashōmon by Akira Kurosawa(
Visual
)29
editions published
between
1950
and
2013
in
Japanese and English
and held by
2,303 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Four people describe the murder of a nobleman and the rape of his wife with each person's testimoy contradicting the other's

M by Fritz Lang(
Visual
)29
editions published
between
1931
and
2013
in
German and English
and held by
1,930 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Presents a drama based on the actual case of the Dusseldorf murderer recounting the hunt by the law and the underworld for
a psychopathic murderer of young girls

Lord of the flies by William Golding(
Visual
)21
editions published
between
1963
and
2013
in
English
and held by
1,897 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A group of boys, ages 6 to 12, survives a plane crash and becomes stranded on a deserted island. Ralph, Piggy and the others
attempt to govern themselves, a task at which they fail disastrously. Two leaders--one civilized, one depraved--epitomize
the forces of good against evil. In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding's
legendary novel on the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center.
Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of The Flies with an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record
a spontaneous eruption of its characters' ids. The result is a rattling masterpiece, as provocative as its source material

Smultronstället = Wild strawberries by Ingmar Bergman(
Visual
)32
editions published
between
1957
and
2013
in
Swedish and English
and held by
1,874 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Follows an aged doctor's journey through a compelling landscape of dream and memory as he travels to receive an honorary degree.
Haunting flashbacks and incidents along the way force him to confront his life and its failings

Orfeu negro = Black Orpheus by Marcel Camus(
Visual
)39
editions published
between
1958
and
2013
in
3
languages
and held by
1,871 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Street-car conductor Mello and country-girl Dawn fall in love in Rio de Janeiro during Carnival. Based on the legend of Orpheus
and Eurydice

Hamlet by William Shakespeare(
Visual
)17
editions published
between
1948
and
2011
in
English
and held by
1,734 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Hamlet is Shakespeare's towering tragedy of the Danish prince who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer

Amarcord by Federico Fellini(
Visual
)29
editions published
between
1973
and
2017
in
Italian
and held by
1,632 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"In his carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period, Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns
daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge, all set to Nino
Rota's classic, nostalgia-tinged score."--Container

La règle du jeu : fantaisie dramatique de Jean Renoir = The rules of the game : a dramatic fantasy by Jean Renoir(
Visual
)28
editions published
between
1939
and
2011
in
French and English
and held by
1,631 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners, in which a weekend at a marquis's countryside
chateau lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haute bourgeois acquaintances. The film was a victim of tumultuous history:
it was subjected to cuts after premiere audiences rejected it in 1939, and the original negative was destroyed during World
War II. It wasn't reconstructed until 1959. That version, which has stunned viewers for decades, is presented here

L'avventura by Michelangelo Antonioni(
Visual
)33
editions published
between
1960
and
2014
in
Italian
and held by
1,471 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Story about the search for woman who goes missing while on a yacht cruise off the coast of Sicily. Her boyfriend and best
friend end up finding each other instead

Kumonosujō = Throne of blood (Spider's web castle) by Akira Kurosawa(
Visual
)18
editions published
between
1957
and
2014
in
Japanese
and held by
1,465 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Presents an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. A Samurai lord kills his master and usurps his power
in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy

Beauty and the beast by Jean Cocteau(
Visual
)23
editions published
between
1946
and
2011
in
French
and held by
1,388 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A restoration of the original 1946 French film, telling the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose
love releases the prince in him

Le ballon rouge = The Red Balloon by Albert Lamorisse(
Visual
)20
editions published
between
1956
and
2008
in
3
languages
and held by
1,335 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The Red balloon (34 min.) describes a little boy's friendship with a magical red balloon as they have adventures in the streets
of Paris. The boy must save the balloon, however, from a gang of urchins who want to destroy it. White Mane (38 min.) tells
the story about a boy in the south of France who wins the friendship of a proud wild stallion and together they escape into
the sea from the attacks of ranchers

The third man by Carol Reed(
Visual
)16
editions published
between
1949
and
2017
in
English
and held by
1,300 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the
Austrian black market

Les quatre cents coups by François Truffaut(
Visual
)37
editions published
between
1959
and
2017
in
French and English
and held by
1,276 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This François Truffaut's first feature is the partially autobiographical story of a 12-year-old boy, unhappy at home and
at school, who finds himself in a detention centre ; he finally escapes and keeps running. Starring Jean-Pierre Lead, Claire
Maurier, Albert Remy

Hiroshima mon amour = Hiroshima, my love by Alain Resnais(
Visual
)9
editions published
between
1980
and
2015
in
French and English
and held by
1,253 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Set in 1959, a French actress and a Japanese architect engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming
mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering